Some ex-cons just can’t make it on the outside, but it usually takes more than a few hours to figure that out. Released from the Harford County (Maryland) Detention Center earlier on Friday, 38-year-old Michael D. Stevens II apparently decided he’d seen enough, so he stole a five-ton 923-A six-wheel military utility truck and led police on a 20-mile chase before being apprehended and returning to the Harford County Detention Center for Friday night.
As NBC News notes, Stevens drove into Baltimore City despite police using multiple techniques to try to stop the truck and he abandoned the vehicle in the Canton neighborhood. Stevens’ joyride ended in no injuries, but a lot of damage; he was charged with motor vehicle theft, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and failing to obey a lawful order. Officials didn’t release what Stevens was initially jailed for, but we’re not guessing it was bank fraud.